Honors Scholarship
Wick Poetry Center Honors Scholarship
$1,000 in scholarships will be awarded for the best poetry submitted by Kent State University Honors students. Winners will be chosen in collaboration with the Wick Poetry Center.
Guidelines
- These awards are nonrenewable. Undergraduates may reapply.
- The competition is open to any Honors undergraduate currently enrolled at Kent State University.
- The scholarship awards are to Kent State University only.
- All entries must be original and may be simultaneously submitted to other publications.
- Each entrant may submit one poem only.
- The poem should be no more than 100 lines long.
- The poet’s name should not appear on the poem.
- In the cover letter section of this form, poets must write their name, address, email and telephone number.
Entries must be submitted between November 1 and April 1.
Winners are notified each May.
Additionally, the honors literary and arts magazine Brainchild will consider publishing the winning poem in the following year's edition.
2024 Winner and Finalists
- Isabella Kaufman for “Offshoot”
Finalist: DJ Johnson
2023 Winner
- Hannah Fender for "South"
2022 Winner and Finalists
- Sophia Swengel for “Future Shock”
Finalists: Anastasia Simms, Gabrielle Wheeler, Wren Baddour, Patrick Moorman, Olivia Wachtel, Olivia Farina
2021 Winners and Finalists
- 1st Place: Olivia Meyer for “You Are Who I Love”
- 2nd Place: Olivia Farina for “If old white men wrote more poems about flowers”
- 3rd Place: Gabriella Clingman: for “Messenger of Joy”
Finalists: Clara Britton, Haley Rixon, Angelina DiFranco, Olivia Wachtel, Christian Zupsic